Summary: Developers today face an increasing demands – the software must not only be delivered on time and deliver innovative functionality, but be secure and usable. Delivering the latter two requires specialist knowledge many developers do not have. And the guidelines and tools produced by experts in these disciplines often do fit with current develop practices, and occasionally contradict each other. Even worse, many researchers who claim to offer ‘usable security’ produce guidance that contradicts fundamental principles of human-centred software engineering – for instance, when users are unable to achieve primary their goals because of security measures. The talk will summarise recent research on we can support developers in developing products that adhere to human-centred principles, and are secure and usable.

Short bio: Prof. HDR. Dr. M. Angela Sasse FREng is a usability researcher by training, she started investigating the causes and effects of usability issues with security mechanisms in 1996. In addition to studying specific mechanisms such as passwords, biometrics, and access control, her research group has developed human-centred frameworks that explain the role of security, privacy, identity and trust in human interactions with technology. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2015, and she was formerly Director of the multidisciplinary UK Research Institute for Science of Cyber Security (RISCS) until recently when she was appointed as full professor at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

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